MLB reviewing controversial pitching change

Summary of 2 articles · Updated May 10, 2013

MLB vice president of communications Pat Courtney said that the rule covering pitching changes was not properly applied in the seventh inning of Thursday night’s Angels-Astros game. Angels manager Mike Scioscia argued with the umpires that Astros manager … (more)Bo Porter made an illegal pitching change in the seventh inning. Crew chief Culbreth and his cohorts should not have allowed Astros manager Bo Porter to remove Wesley Wright from the game during his warmup tosses in favor of Hector Ambriz once Scioscia opted to replace pinch-hitter Luis Jimenez with another pinch-hitter, Scott Cousins . Somehow, Porter a rookie manager convinced the umps that the rule had been changed.